Use Cases

How builders ship the right thing.

Real inputs, real specs, real hand-offs. Each example is a complete flow — pick a workflow or a role and see what comes out the other side.

By role

All roles Product Manager Founder Designer Engineering Lead

By workflow

All workflows First Intent Evidence Intake Evidence to Spec Spec Authoring Spec Review Build Queue Agent Handoff

Spec Review·An agent proposal and its original request

Review and correct an agent's proposal before it builds

A cancel-plan request never said when paid access ends, and the agent's proposal ends it immediately. Follow the requested answers, the agent's revision, and the separate authorization the next coding session builds from.

For: Product Manager5 min read

Spec Review·PRD draft

Audit a draft spec for missing edge cases

Paste your half-finished PRD or spec. Pathmode runs a Socratic review, flags the assumptions you didn't realize you were making, and surfaces the edge cases your team will hit in week two.

For: Product Manager6 min

Spec Review·Two stakeholder docs

Spot the conflict between two stakeholder requests

Sales wants self-serve, security wants SSO-only. Drop both requests into Pathmode and get the conflict surfaced as an explicit tension — not buried in a 30-page spec.

For: Product Manager5 min

Before your agent builds, preflight the spec.

Pathmode applies six deterministic checks to a ticket, doc, or intent.md and names the missing outcomes, constraints, edge cases, and verification. It runs in your browser.

Run the preflight Create your account

No account or API key required. The preflight checks your spec in your browser. The local MCP server makes no network requests in keyless mode; your coding agent may send context to its own model provider. An account adds private evidence, attributed decisions, and teammate review.

Install locally

/plugin marketplace add pathmodeio/claude-plugin
/plugin install pathmode@pathmode

Installs the Pathmode plugin and MCP server for Claude Code.